Arianne Cease is an Assoc Prof and Director of the Global Locust Initiative. She uses transdisciplinary approaches to study how human-plant-insect interactions affect agroecosystem and locust management sustainability.

Research focuses on understanding the different physiological mechanisms that allow animals to live in challenging environments, and whether these are enough to help them survive in a changing world.

McGraw is an integrative behavioral ecologist who primarily studies the colors of animals such as birds to understand the costs, benefits and evolution of visual signals.

My research seeks to understand how invertebrate herbivores solve the problem of balancing multiple and changing nutrient needs and how it affects their behavior and performance.